A female TV presenter, Nawras al-Nuaimi, was murdered by gunmen near her home in Mosul, Iraq, on Sunday, according to her station, Al-Mosuliyah TV. She was the fifth journalist murdered in Mosul since October. Mosul has the reputation of being one of the most dangerous areas in Iraq.
In October, Al-Mosuliyah cameraman Bashar Abdulqader Najm and two journalists from the Sharqiya TV — correspondent Mohammed Karim al-Badrani and cameraman Mohammed Ghanem, were murdered in Mosul; in November, Alaa Edwar, a Christian journalist working for the Nineveh al-Ghad TV, was also shot to death in the same city.
On December 5, Kawa Ahmed Germyani, the editor-in-chief of Rayal magazine and a correspondent for Awene newspaper, was shot to death in Kalar, Sulaimaniyah province; that murder catalyzed
media rights watchdog Reporters Without Borders to state it was “worried about the very dangerous climate for journalists both in Iraqi Kurdistan and the rest of Iraq, and about the impunity enjoyed by their attackers and killers.”
Iraq ranks first in the Committee to Protect Journalists’ Impunity Index, which follows unsolved murders of journalists.
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